{"id":83251,"date":"2018-10-03T10:43:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-executive-talks-rocket-rd-nobody-paid-us-to-make-falcon-heavy"},"modified":"2018-10-03T10:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:43:26","slug":"spacex-executive-talks-rocket-rd-nobody-paid-us-to-make-falcon-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-executive-talks-rocket-rd-nobody-paid-us-to-make-falcon-heavy","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX executive talks rocket R&amp;D: \u201cNobody paid us to make Falcon Heavy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hs2LBeLCo_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Set to give a keynote speech on October 3rd at 2018\u2019s International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Hans Koenigsmann \u2013 SpaceX Vice President of Build and Flight Reliability \u2013 attended an impromptu talk one day prior, titled \u201cFrom the University of Bremen to SpaceX\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before a small audience, the University of Bremen graduate and fourth employee to join SpaceX discussed his opinions of Falcon Heavy, BFR, and more, frankly relating how SpaceX intentionally chose to build Falcon Heavy on its own, going so far as to turn down funding reportedly offered by one or more US government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully a sign of things to come for his 09:20 UTC, Oct. 3 keynote, titled \u201cReusability: The Key to Reliability and Affordability\u201d, Hans\u2019 precursor talk centered around the circuitous path that led him from University of Bremen to SpaceX, humorously describing how he \u201cgot bored of airplanes pretty quickly\u201d after becoming an aerospace engineer. He quickly turned to space, hopping between a number of German smallsat projects that eventually led him to settle in the U.S. after flying there and back \u201cat least 25 times\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-executive-nobody-paid-us-to-make-falcon-heavy\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-executive-nobody-paid-us-to-make-falcon-heavy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set to give a keynote speech on October 3rd at 2018\u2019s International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Hans Koenigsmann \u2013 SpaceX Vice President of Build and Flight Reliability \u2013 attended an impromptu talk one day prior, titled \u201cFrom the University of Bremen to SpaceX\u201d. Speaking before a small audience, the University of Bremen graduate and fourth employee [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}